WARNING: IF YOU ARE SCARED OF BUGS, DO NOT READ FURTHER!!
(seriously.... did you know that bugs have SEX?)



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Careful Mister, She's a Man Eater
(08/31/2005) Praying Mantis mating
I took this picture two weeks ago in Port Elgin Ontario, I haven't seen a better one on the internet, enjoy.
Sean J. Patrick Bates



Hi Sean,
We agree your photo is "Aces" and are proud to post it.

Mating Western Rhinoceros Beetles
(09/29/2005) Rino
Better pics of the Rino,  Hope you can use them.
Danny



Ed. Note: We have put in a request for Danny to provide additional information on this image. Is he raising the beetles? or were they found in the wild? Only time will tell.

I sent you a few pics last week,  they were found in Payson Arizona. I do have 3 males and 5 females. I will try to raise any offspring. The pics sent last week were taken on the spur. in the current photos I was able to use a tripod.  How about that bug luv.  
Danny Lee

(note from caroline:
OH MY GOD!!!)

This one is just pretty:

South African Grasshopper
(05/20/2006) South African grasshopper
I attach a photo of a grasshopper I saw in Karoo National Park in South Africa while on holiday this January. It was at least 75mm long and I have never seen an insect so beautifully coloured. Can you possibly identify it for me please?
Thanks,
Geoff White



Hi Geoff,
Most of the colorful South African Grasshoppers are poisonous. We are consulting with Eric Eaton for a possibly species identification. Here is Eric's input: "The South African grasshopper is in the Pyrgomorphidae, will try to remember to check my book at home for a possible species ID."

Colorful South African Grasshopper (05/21/2006)
I believe that the colorful South African grasshopper on your homepage is Zonocerus elegans. If I am correct, they can have long wings or short wings, but they are all very colorful. Hope this helps,
Chad Lensbower

Update (05/24/2006) Eric Eaton has this to add:
Ok, the South African grasshopper is probably something in the genus Zonocerus, perhaps Z. elegans. Apparently they can be quite the pest, and even 'Livestock avoid eating bushes infested with this species,' according to my Field Guide to Insects of South Africa, by Mike Picker, Charles Griffiths, and Alan Weaving. You don't say! Ha, I wouldn't eat a bush full of those 'hoppers, either. Eric"